St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-12

Tsherinc in of IA Worlds Peace Jubilee.
RpooK1yy. Nov. 6.-The main feature
in the music of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
is the conversational singing. To-Day,
after the opening song, in which all the
thousands heartily participated, PROBES
sor Browne gave on the organ Scherzo,
onus 81 by MendclssOhn. The Rev. /.
DE Witt Tamage, ID. d., cXpounded
..haptcr in the first book OF Samuel,
where Saul, possessed of an evil spirit,
threw a iavelin at David, who was play
ING on the harp before him, thus show
ING that the evil spirit does not like
sacred music The subject of the sermon
was "Concord and Discord," and the
text was from Job, chap. xXxviii, V. o
and :: "Who laid the cornerstone
thereof; when the morning stars sang
together 2" Dr. Talmage said:
We have all seen the ceremony at the
LAYING of the cornerstone of church,
asylum or Masonic temple. Into the
hollow of the stone were placed scrolls
of history and important documents to
be suggestive if, one or two hunured
wears after, the building should be de-
stroyed by fire or torn down. We re-
member the silver trowelor iron hammer
that smote the square piece OF granite
into sanctity We remember some ven
cradle man who presided, welding the
trowel or hammer We remember also
the music as the choir stood on the
scattered stones and timber of the build
ing about to be constructed. The leaves
of the notebooks tiuttered in the wind,
and were turned over with a great rust
ling, and we remember how the bass,
baritone, tenor, contralto and soprano
voices commingled They had for many
DAYS been rehearsing the special pro-
gramme, that it might be worthy of the
cornerstone laying.
In nv text the poet of u calls us to a
grander ceremony-the laying of the
Foundation of this great temple of a
world. The cornerstone was block OF
light and the trowel was of celestial crys-
tai. All about and on the embellishments
of cloud stood the angelic choristers,
unrolling their librettos of overture,
and other worlds clapped shining Gym
balls while the ceremony went on, and
God, the architect, by stroke of light
after stroke of light, dedicated this great
cathedral of a world, with mountains for
pillars, and sky for frescoed ceiling, and
Towering fields for floor, and sunrise and
midnight aurora for upholstery. who
laid the cornerstone thereof; when the
morning stars sang together"
The fact is that the whole universe
was complete cadence, an unbroken
dithyramb, a musical portfolio. The
great sheet of immensely had been
spread out, and written on it were the
stars, the smaller of them minlms, the
larger of them sustained notes. The
meteors marked the staccato passages,
the whole heavens a gamut, with all
sounds, intonations and modulations,
the space between the worlds musical
interval trembling of stellar light a
ouaver the thunder base clef, the wind
among trees a treble clef. That is the
way God made all things-a perfect har-
mony.
But one day barp-string snapped in
the orchestra One day voice sounded
out of tune. One day discord, harsh
and terrific, grated upon the glorious an
tiphone It was sin that made the dis
sonance, and that harsh discord has been
sounding through the centuries. All the
work of Christians, and philanthrQpists,
and reformers of all ages is to stop that
discord and get all things back into the
perfect harmony which was heard at the
laying of the cornerstone, when the
morning stars sang together. Before
get through, if | am divinely helped, |
will make it plain that sin is discord and
righteousness is harmony.
That things in general are out OF tune
is as plain as to musicians ear is the
unhappy clash of clarionet and bassoon
in an orchestral rendering.
The worlds health out of tune: Weak
lung and the atmosphere in collision,
disordered eye and MONDAY light in
quarrel, rheumatic limb and damp wea
Their in struggle, neuralgias, and pneu
monias, and consumptions, and epilepsies
in flocks swoop upon neighborhoods and
cities. Where you find one person with
sound throat, and keen eyesight, and
alert ear, and easy respiration and regu-
lar pulsation, and supple limb, and prime
digestion, and steady nerves, you find
hundred who have}to be very careful be-
cause this, or that or the other physical
function is disordered.
The human intellect out of tune The
judgment wrongly swerved, or the
memory leaky, or the will weak, or the
temper infammable, and the well-bal
anced mind exceptional Domestic life
out of tune: Only here and there con-
jugal outbreak of incompatibility of
temper through the divorce courts, or
filial outbreak about a fathers will
through the surrogate's court, or case of
beating or husband poisoning
through the criminal courts, but thou
sands of families with June outside and
January within.
Society out of tune Labor and capital,
their hands on each others throat.
Spirit of caste keeping those down in
the social scale in struggle to get up,
and putting those who are up in anxiety
lest they have to come down. No wonder
the old pianoforte of society is all out of
tune, when hypocrisy, and lying, and
subterfuge, and double dealing, and
sycophancy, and charlatanism, and re-
venge have for six thousand years been
banging away at the keys and stamping
the pedals.
On all sides there is perpetual ship
wreck of harmonies. Nations in discord
without realizing it so wrong is the feel
ing of nation for nation that the symbols